Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Infants and Children With Partial Discrimination Between Active Disease and Asymptomatic Infection

Background: Improved diagnostic tests are needed for the early identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected young children exposed to an active TB (aTB) index case. We aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of new blood-based tests to that of the tuberculin skin test (TST) for the identif...

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Autores principales: Dreesman, Alexandra, Dirix, Violette, Smits, Kaat, Corbière, Véronique, Van Praet, Anne, Debulpaep, Sara, De Schutter, Iris, Felderhof, Mariet-Karlijn, Malfroot, Anne, Singh, Mahavir, Locht, Camille, Mouchet, Françoise, Mascart, Françoise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404140
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00311

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404140
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00311

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